{"id":30227,"date":"2026-09-28T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=30227"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:58:19","slug":"30227-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/30227-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/randywells_L1124090-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/randywells_L1124090-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/randywells_L1124090-1-1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/randywells_L1124090-1-1-330x233.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/randywells_L1124090-1-1-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 85vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OUT OF THIS WORLD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what an increasing number of unbelievably amazing looking new images you see today are. They are made up, not of this world. They never existed on earth. I&#8217;d call them photographs, but they&#8217;re not, since there is no actual light being used to create them (photo = light). <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Digital manipulation, AI and apps have made it possible for anyone with a modicum of visual skills to produce an image that most think looks good and real. So many of these images have been made that they have replaced all the real photographs ever made in sheer numbers. BTW, an AI generated image cannot be copyrighted by the person who asked for it to be made.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to come up with a new name for this form of &#8220;photography&#8221;. What&#8217;s your choice? Would anyone use it if it sounded made up? How about imaginary visual representation? <\/p>\n<p>(Above: Shot in camera last month, no cropping or manipulation)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUT OF THIS WORLD That&#8217;s what an increasing number of unbelievably amazing looking new images you see today are. They are made up, not of this world. They never existed on earth. I&#8217;d call them photographs, but they&#8217;re not, since there is no actual light being used to create them (photo = light).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30227"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30299,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions\/30299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}